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=100    $$a Erasmus Montaigne
=245    $$a GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD
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=260    $$a Chicago $b Encyclopedia Britannica $c 2005
=300    $$a ix, 597 hlm
=520    $$a Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. Volume 23 served the history, philosophy and works of great scholars; Desiderius Erasmus, a Dutch humanist and theologian, and Michel Eyquem De Montaigne  was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography ? and his massive volume Essais (translated literally as "Attempts") contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written.